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As the author of B and co-inventor of C programming languages, a hacker by reputation and one the leading pioneers of computer science Ken Thompson puts it “When in doubt, use brute force”. Much like Chaos Theory, programming patterns have long evolved bringing order and sanity within the apparent randomness of chaotic complex systems.

Comedy has never been a genre that moved me unless it was genuine, spontaneous and definitely not if it was soft comedy. When it comes to Black humor nobody can outperform George Carlin in his prime word-smith satire as he debunks the language of politics and euphemism at National Press Club conference held in Washington DC (1999).

Now folks, no politics or euphemism in what you're about to read. Unfortunately couldn't find any transcript of this conference, so, tailored one. Fast forwarding 10-15 minutes and George begins with his legendary rant:

Financial crisis in 2008 shook influential trees all around the world and as the saying goes "Ponzi came in full circle". A hippie over-bloated euphoria of power, politics and hypocrisy that revoked money and power from competent people and landed with bunch of incompetent people. A summary by Michael Kreiger:

If you have used Webform module in Drupal it would have occured at some point: what if it could be further extended to support payment checkout? Good news is you can since Drupal modules are closely tied to its API. Some interesting statistics on Drupal 7 API: